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VOL. 33. NO. 9.
DILLON, MONTANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1913.
Desirable Exhibit at Library
Lodgepole Pine Tree Section
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
j
Girl Killed Stealing Corn
A Good Man Gone .
Nevada, Mo.— L. M. Dull was found | Robert Hein died at his .ranch near
guilty today of breaking into Claude i B.nnnacK lest
!
Friday morning. The
Beedle’s barn and sentenced to two years j services
v conducted at the 'Methoin tlie penitentiary. Duff’s defense was JGist ch.ure! in jlannaek Sunday at 2
that his daughter,- mentally unbalanced, j o'clock lev- !:c Rev. E. V. Ostrander of
had left, borne in the night and that he ¡the Dill,.:, lVvshvteriau church, lu­
“ Rings” Show Its Slow Growth and T hat It hud .followed her to -Beedle’s barn. He j torment in be cemetery near Hann.iek,
said..he was trying to persuade...her to j Mr. this was 1 , years oi age on the Ex-President and Ex-Vice President of Mexico
W a s Four Hundred and Thirty-five Years
return "home when .Bcedle disem avd j 17th of kw month. He was a native
Shot to Death W h ile Being Taken to the
them. They started to run and Beedle \of Sen! la ml and a Scotch Presbyterian,
Old W h en Taken From Bald Mountain
fired, killing the daughter and. wounding I lie came i the United States in 1X71
Penitentiary at Midnight
the lather. The charge against Beedle 1and locate in California. From there
of killing the girl was dropped by the he went 1 Black Hills, Dakota. In
One of the most interesting exhibits,
This section of tree will no doubt at­
prosecutor.
1SS2 lie ca e to Bannaek, and has lived
Mexico- City, Feb.. 28.— Francisco
to many, ever seen in Dillon will be at tract a gival deal of attention.
promises, harm been made that the guil­
there
31 years, For the (last six or Madero, deposed president, and Ji
the Public Library building, and was
ty will be.punished.
Sitting on the table the.section meas­
“ When the Moon Falls”
seven years he has been ranching. Pino Suarez, deposed vice president, in
"worked up” at the Forest office in this ures in height about 5 inches. Go to the
Not unnaturally the great part of the
Albany, N. Y., Feb. 20.— Governor Previous to that time he was placer a midnight ride under guard from the
Library and see it.
city.
public regards the ollieial version with
Suker has a legislative stock exchange mining, lie has a son, William, who national palace to the penitentiary, were
It is a cross section of a lodgepole
doubt, having in mind the irse for cen­
reform program.
lives on Horse prairie, and another son shot to death.
pine tree, highly polished, and clearly GEORGE OSTERMAN, SR., FREE
turies of the unwritten law which is in­
'T understand,” said the governor in a in Sen .land. His wile died in Scot­
The only witnesses were those aetu voked when the death of a prisoner is
showing-the growth from year to year by
statement, "that 1113’ name was greeted land.
ally concerned.
its "rings.” Each ring represents a Justice Hirschman on Monday Heard
desired. After its .application there is
with hisses at a dinner of stock exchange
The
esteem
of
his
neighbors
was
am­
The provisional president, General written on the records: "Prisoner shot
year, and there are 435 of them. The
the Evidence and Declared It
men. In the performance, of my duty ply attested by the large attendance at Victoriano Huerta, says the killing of
diameter would be about 17 inches if
trying to escape." Many believe that
Insufficient To Hold
as 1 see it, I care very little about the the funeral. He was regarded by all a* the two men was incidental to a tight
the section were exactly round; but it
Prisoners Madero and Suarez were vic­
hisses of the stock exchange crowd. a splendid gentleman.
between' their guard and a party at­ tims of this unwritten law.
varies from about 1(5 to about 18 inches.
T hu T ri uhnu last week told of the ai
They say they are going to leave New
tempting to liberate them. The min­
The rings at some places are so close rest of George Cfsteyman, Sr., and his
Early today small groups congre­
York. They will leave, no doubt, when
M
rs.’
].
IF.McIntosh
and
three
chil­
ister of foreign relations, Francisco Do gated about the penitentiary. They
together that pins in a straight line son George on-a charge of burglarizing
the moon tails.”
dren have arrived here from Dillon to La Barra, adds that the prisoners at­ were composed for the most part of men
could not be stuck into each ring. Be the Bay Brothers’ home about four miles
Good riddance, if they go, governor.
join her husband, who is now on the tempted to escape. Neither makes a
ginning at the center a pin has been from Dillon.
and women of the lower classes. There
stall of the Butte Miner. Mr. McIn­ definite statement as to which side fired
stuck in a straight line into each tenth
was a decided feeling of sympathy fot
The preliminary hearing of George
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hunter of Arm­ tosh lias secured a home for his family the fatal shots. It is possible that
ring. The principal events of history Ostcrman, Sr., was held before Justice
the Maderos. Many women were cry­
stead were in town the first of the week on West Granite street.— Butte Daily neither knows. A 11 official investiga­
are shown by pins stuck into .various Hirschman Monday at 2 o ’clock, Jos.
ing, Sonie of the men attempted to
trading with Dillon merchants.
Post.
tion has been ordered and solemn make speeches but were repressed by
rings. Each pin has a pennant-like C. Smith appearing as attorney for the
the guards.
label. The whole arrangement is novel, defendant and County Attorney R. S.
and one could profitably spend hours in Stephen,ison for the state. The hearing
What had been intended as a day oi
study of the information so tersely given. resulted in a declaration by the justice
jollification for the Huerta administra­
This exhibit should be, and no doubt that the evidence was not sufficient to
tion was one of .solemnity.
will be, highly treasured, and kept under justify holding Osterman.
The Maderistas have been discreet in
a glass cover. Accompanying it will be
their utterances and the pro-govern­
The evidence showed that certain
a card that reads as follows:
ment men almost equally so. Appar­
property of the Bay Brothers had been
“ United States Department of Agri­ stolen; that it was found upon Osterently the patrols of soldiers and mount­
culture, Forest Service, Beaverhead man’s place; that he had recently bought
ed police have served to remind them
National Forest.
that the country is now ruled by a gov­
the place and all that was on it with the
"Section of a lodgepole pine tree, exception of a few things reserved; and
ernment whose administrative program
is of the sternest character.
showing 435 annual rings—-each ring Osterman, Sr., swore that when the of­
representing one year’s growth.’
ficers found the things on the place he
No attempt is made at the national
“ The straight row .of pins, running believed they were a part of what he had
palace to disguise this fact and President
from heart to the circumference, are bought, and he therefore claimed them;
Huerta has said drastic measures will be
adopted to restore order.
placed at each tenth year’s growth, and I that after spending a day in Dillon he
the number attached to each pin in this ! returned home after being released on
straight row indicates the year the tree j bond; that his son confessed to him that
Recent Events In Mexico
had reached that particular point in its he had stolen the things, and that this
Feb. 9 -Army revolts in Mexico City*
diameter growth.
i was reported to the sheriff, who later
releases Diaz and Reyes, and captures
“ For instance: Find the pin with the arrested the son on the same charge;
the arsenal under the leadership ot
1)iaz.
number 1700 attached to it. That pin that they had been stolen and brought
is sticking in the layer of wood that home while the father was at a neigh­
Madero thought to have (led.
grew during the year 1700.
bor's;-the son corroborated the father's
Feb. 10--Madcm,returns to palace
A i*
1
"The other pins show the size of the testimony.
sanguiny he will triumph over revo­
lutionists.
tree when some of the principal his­
In the argument that followed, the
Diplomats seek protection for fortorical events happened. From this it prosecution said that the accused should
oigners.
• can be seen that it was a sapling about be held to the district court, but if this
inches in diameter when Columbus was not the judgment of the court, there
Armed conflict imminent.
discovered America, and that it was a was ground upon which to hold Oster­
Feb, 11 -Madero and Diaz engage in.
good-sized tree when the Declaration of man, Sr., that had not been developed
mortal combat for supremacy and hun­
Independence was signed
in the preliminary, and that he would
dreds are killed in streets of capital.
"This tree came from a stand cover­ perform the duty of having him so held,
Both declare it must he fight to a finish.
ing possibly 200 acres on the slopes of Accordingly Osterman, Sr., was re­
Feb. 12 --Fighting resumed, both
Bald mountain, where the elevation is arrested and is now tinder bond to ap­
commanders defiant and desperate.
over 8,000 feet. This stand is composed pear in the district court, where he will
Non-combatants experience all the hor­
entirely of these veterans. The ex- be tried for burglary.
rors of war and arc subjected to great
, tremely slow growth after it had reached
danger and hardship. Two American
women killed. "
an age of about 100 years is due partly
Osterman, Jr., Held
to elevation and partly to the fact that
George Osterman, Jr., was brought
Feb. 13— Diaz demands surrender o{
lodgepole pine is a very slow grower af­ before Justice Kcnison Monday after­
palace, but Madero obstinately refuses
ter it has reached that age. In other noon and waived a preliminary examina­
to relinquish, saying he Will die first.
words, it is mature at the age of 100 to tion on a charge of having burglarized
Madero begins to worry over grave sit­
uation.
150.years; and while it will exist for a the Bay Brothers’ home. He was
Feb. I I Rumored Madero
much longer time, the growth is so slow placed under a bond of SI, 000 for ap­
had rcsigned. Senate met to aeeepl. rosigit is more profitable to remove it and pearance before the district court. The
nation if tendered. Armed
make room for another crop.
bond was given and the young man was
interven*
tion by United Slates fo;
"At lower elevations, and under favor­ released. He is 17 years of age, ac­
sued. Fighting
unabated,
able conditions, lodgepole pine can be cording to his testimony before Justice
found IS inches in diameter when it is Hirschman Monday afternoon, when
Feb. Hi - Strict censorship estab­
100 years old.”
his father was tried on the charge of the
lished. ( loveminent officials seize cable
— Donnell in St. Louis Globe-Democr..
When this particular tree was 100 same crime as that with which the boy
and eonfireate all correspondence filed
years old the rings: show it to have been is accused.
for newspapers. Armistice agreed upon
rear with good windows, find the pro­ but soon broken.
between 10 and 11 inches in diameter,
vision for electric lighting is ample and
or but little over half as large as when it DEATH OF MRS. JENNIE METLEN
Fe)i. 17 Federal:-; threaten to dvnaof tasty design.
was 435 years old.
mite arsenal where Diaz was making his
There are portable oak desks, station­ stand. Foreigners removed from da
It was a mere pin-size in diameter Telegram Received Wednesday Morn­
Ian
ery closets,- etc., rrrcplai !<•■, for \vn to ger zone. ( rca I lo-.s of
when it started in 1477. Three years
ing Announced Her Death at
paper, lockers, and coma nienrr-. |or
Feb. 18 - Modern rej lie own
later it. was a switch about a half inch
Los Angeles, California
brown
pretty much everything one could t In’nl: General Huerta being p r o c l a i m
in diameter. When the tree was 15
d' p i n ­
’ years old it was standing on Old Baldy
Mrs. Jennie Metlen of Dillon died at It is Nobby, Airy, Light and Handsome Enough of that is needed now, or lil-a ly to be visional president. Ma ero : is js' rc'-ig*
needed within tin- next ton yi-ai* the na f ion, and su( 1 equentlv is
“and about the size of a lady’s small the home of her granddaughter, Mrs.
-ted in
term for which the building ha: been his own apart men! s.
to Be the Home of A Fairy— -Facilities
wrist, or a small lady’s wrist, or any old Ralph V. Sebrce, in Los Angeles, Cali­
leased.
wrist t hat is near 2,'J inches in diameter. fornia, Tuesday night of this week,
Feb. 19---Arrangi wa nts made for the
The steel ceiling is very at t rai l i vc and exile from Mexico of Madero and fam­
Largely Increased
Then Columbus discovered America; where she had gone, accompanied by
of handsome design.
and, had he come on out here and dis her daughter, Mrs. Bertie Howard of
ily. 'I hey were to have been placed
covered America’s best part, he might Dillon. She has not been in robust
ft is probable that the postoffice will aboard a merchant vow-el at Vera Cruz
The postoffice was moved Wednesday The room is UK) by 25 feet inside. The
f<
have fancied the tree for a cane or a fish- health for a long time. Yet her death—
remain in the new location which was to be carried to some
'■onie !<>reign
port.
afternoon to the building just admirably new fixtures are placed very convenient­
pole. Had George Washington seen it due to a general breaking down— was a
its old one- until such time as our
Fib.
20
Orders
for
deportation
of
equipped for it on Montana street. ly for the employes and the public.
•■when he was elected president he might surprise to many of her friends. -She
"U nde Samuel" shall see fit to erect a deposed president and family rescinded.
This was formerly the postoffice, loca­ '1'lie boxes are of the most approved
have thought it would make a nice tele had resided most of her time for a num­
postoffice building in Dillon.
Held a prisoner tnnU > chaige., of mur­
tion; and whether it suits everybody or style, and are numbered from 1 to.X77—
phone pole—if he had known anything ber of years at her home in Dillon, where
der
and looting the national treasury.
One
man
says
lie
hopes
the
postoffice
not, it is a good location, and the room a considerable of an increase. This is
about a telephone. It was then near she was universally esteemed. She was
will
stay
where
it
is.
“
at
least
as
long
as
Feb.
21— Huerta at very outset of hi3
and' furniture are admirable. Fliel well, for wc all believe that Dillon 'is
14 or 15 inches in size.
numbered among the pioneers of Beaver­
regime
is threatened with revolution,
the
democratic
party
shall
remain
in
Brothers have spent between $6,000 and . just
.......at
. the
.... time in her life that t'ho boy
The pins show that from lOtttl to 1910 head county, and our old-time residents
governors
of several slates having re­
power,”
and
he
who
made
the
remark
is
17,000 in overhauling 'and furnishing |is who ha 'growing pains” and that
the diameter grew about one-fourth of especially regret to learn of her death.
fused
to
recognize
his authority as pro­
of
course
a
Rejmhlican
and
desirous
of
the room with the latest postoffice con­ her mail business is destined to rapidly
an inch. When it was a kid it grew—
Mrs. Howard and Mrs. Sebree started veniences.
"a change” in 1916 -and certainly no visional president.
increase. At the rear ,is a window fo r , wemocral
A change"
from its third to its thirteenth (or un­ to Dillon with the remains yesterday
Feb. 22— United States rushes 4,000
Democrat sfl0ul(l
should ,;1)K.ct.
object. -"A
change"
The moving of a postoffice, isn’t as
the earners and parcels post business. Jis the thing most DcnK)Crats have howled troops to Galveston, to.be prepared to
lucky) year— nearly two full inches in and are expected to arrive here tomor­
big a job as many would believe at first In
In front
front in
in the'northwest
the northwest corner
- Ure‘rime'VoT
, u
corner is
is fbo
the [1{or
a W
the same length of time (from 1480 to row afternoon on the train from the
a half take a seaport and make way for in­
thought. The mail carriers kpep the private room of the postmaster (and it I ___
1490). From 1530 on it grew much south.
vasion of Mexico if that step be neces­
office fairly well emptied each d’ay, and is said several, prominent democrats century.
slower, increasing its diameter between
Mrs. Metlen was a native of Carthage, none of .the fixtures are taken when the
sary.
Huerta sent message of peace to
Anyhow, Dillon has a post office and a
have called to look at it recently).
congress.
that year and 1540 about two-thirds of Illinois. There she married Thomas
postoffice changes location; so, when the A little farther in, on the left as one en­ postmaster now to be proud of—and
an inch.
McCall, and they came West, and Mr. postmaster must change location, there
Feb. 23— Former President Madero
ters, are the departments for money may the next—office and master— be
*• Since Montana was admitted to the McCall died. In 1869 she and Joseph
and
Jose Pino Suarez, deposed vice
isn’t much to do except to call the dog orders, registered mail and postal sav­ just as good.
Union in 1889 this tree put on only C. Metlen were married at Corinne,
president, shot and killed.
and start— and if the postmaster has no ings bank business. Then, some ' 35
about half an inch of diameter.
Utah. A short timfe after her second dog the calling can be dispensed with.
Dillon Husbands Don’t Do So
feet from the front, is the general de­
New Mexican Organization
Since gold was discovered at Ban- marriage she and Mr. Metlen came to
The moving of mail on hand is hardly livery and stamp window. East of the
Butte.—
Mary
Halonen,
who
says
she
Mexico
City, Feb. 20.—The last-‘de­
nack in 1863 practically an inch of Beaverhead county.
She was the to be counted, because a postmaster is
general delivery the boxes begin, with is themother of six children, filed a com­ tails of the organization of Mexico’s
diameter was added.
‘ „
mother^of Samuel and Carrie McCall used to moving mail every day. And
the As at the front and continuing on, plaint against her husband, August Ha­ new government were completed today,
Since the oldest lady in Dillon was and Bertie Metlen Howard.
yet there are some things to move; and easterly until the Z boxes are reached. lonen, with Deputy County Attorney
when the members of President Huer­
born— but then she will not tell her
The bereaved relatives and intimate all this was done Wednesday afternoon
The spaed, between the south wall and Napton, alleging non-support.
Ac­ ta’s official family, took the oath in the
age— says she has had no birthday an­ friends have the sympathy of the entire
after 4 o ’clock.
the boxes is ample to accommodate the cording 'to Mrs. Halonen, her husband yellow-.. room in the_. palace. Signifi­
niversaries since she was 40.
community.
The new location.is a fine room, and people..
____■
cashes his’check in saloons, leaving the cant of the birth in battle of the new
. Lewis and Clark passed where Dillon
Carpenters J. A. McDonald and J. P.
At the real are a closet and a lavatory most of his money with the bartender administration was-thtTfrank display of
now is in 1806, after which the tree's
Alf. Decker of Armstead was in at­ Campeau have been working diligently' and the room is ste^m-heated. The
fori drinks before coming home.— Butte
diameter grew only about two inches.'
tending the horse sale.
upon it since about the first of the year." daylight is admitted from the'front and Miner. .
*
Continued on Page Two.
The New Postoffice Room is
Occupied Since Wednesday
Francisco I. Madero Killed
Jose Pino Suarez also Slain